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Saltburn

LONDON 2023Review: Saltburnby David Katz06/10/2023 - Emerald Fennell’s follow-up to Promising Young Woman is a scabrous thriller about the British upper classes, and those who wish to infiltrate themBarry Keoghan in SaltburnSaltburn, the glossy new film by fast-rising British writer-director Emerald Fennell, screening at BFI London, has "remember whens" and "if onlys" on its mind: nostalgia for the prim and privileged Oxford education of her youth, with its sense of abundant possibility for t...

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt review – experimental film pulls on the senses

There will be a moment in All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, the gorgeous, unconventional debut from Raven Jackson, when the film’s spell works. It may be in the first 15 minutes, lulled by Mississippi’s lush soundscape and meditative shots of a Southern summer, or an extended take in a hospital delivery room. It could wait until the final scene, an ode to memories already recorded and yet to come. The pull of this sparsely worded, deeply sensitive film will likely depend on what ...

halieutuc - HAL and Ovid and salty fish

halieutic (adj.) "pertaining to fishing," 1854, from Latin halieuticus, from Greek halieutikos "pertaining to fishing," from halieuein "to fish," from hals "the sea," literally "salt" (from PIE root *sal-"salt"). Halieutics "writing on the art of fishing" is from 1640s (Latin Halieutica was the title of a poem on fishing by Ovid).

The Pink Salt Ponds of Camargue, France

Check out Italian photographer Paolo Pettigiani’s photos of the evaporation ponds of Camargue, France. While these ponds are industrially harvested for their salt, the pink color of the water is naturally occurring in the salt marshes of the area, caused by halophile dunaliella salina algae. The area is also an important bird habitat and is one of the few places in Europe that flamingos live, which might seem like a coincidence until you learn that flamingos gain their pink color from eating ...

Long Voyage Home, The (1940)

"When a man goes to sea, he ought to give up thinking about things on shore." Synopsis: The crew on a British tramp steamer — including Smitty (Ian Hunter), Cocky (Barry Fitzgerald), Yank (Ward Bond), Driscoll (Thomas Mitchell), and Swedes Ole (John Wayne) and Axel (John Qualen) — carouse together while experiencing a variety of challenges, such as Yank being wounded, the crew suspecting Smitty of being a German spy, and Ole’s desire to finally return home to Sweden. Genres, Themes, A...

J.B. Priestley

Early LifeJohn Boynton Priestley, known as J.B. Priestley in the literary world, was a renowned English writer, social commentator, and playwright. He was born on 13the September 1894, in Yorkshire in England. He was a bright son of Jonathan Priestley, a headmaster, while his mother, Emma, was a housewife. Unfortunately, his mother died when he was just two years old, leaving his father to remarry Amy Fletcher in 1898, whom Priestley described as a loving stepmother.EducationPriestley started...

A contribution to the history of common salt

A contribution to the history of common salt. Source: Kidney International Supplement . Jun1997, Issue 59, pS-127-S-134. 8p. Author(s): DeSanto, Natale G.; Bisaccia, Carmela; Cirillo, Massimo; DeStanto, Rosa Maria; DeSanto, Luca Salvatore; DeSanto, Daniela; Papalia, Teresa; Capasso, Giovambattista; De Napoli, Nicola Abstract: Salt has influenced human nutrition, health, politics, taxation, economy, freight, transport, and commerce throughout the ag...

The Symbolism of Salt in Paintings - Google Scholar

CiteAdvanced searchFind articleswith all of the wordswith the exact phrasewith at least one of the wordswithout the wordswhere my words occuranywhere in the articlein the title of the articleReturn articles authored bye.g., "PJ Hayes" or McCarthyReturn articles published ine.g., J Biol Chem or NatureReturn articles dated between — e.g., 1996The symbolism of salt in paintingsCarmela Bisaccia, Rosa Maria De Santo, Luca Salvatore De Santo, Daniela De Santo, Luigi Bellini, Natale Gaspar...